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tle Through the month P ril,'occasional telephone oo “océurred inquiring’ of Progress. Each time = ' progress was reported, and at ~er April Charter" 8. a contact with Billy Carter simply faded away. On June 30, 1980, at 4:40 p.m. Mr, Nasife Teceived an inquiry from Me. Joel Lisker of f the U.S. Justice Department regarding OUr contacts with Billy : - SBARTER'S OPINIONS ON THE BILLY CARTER CONTACT | _ _ " The Charter Company has had a | Felationship with the National Oil . Corporation of Libya since acquiring Carey Energy Corporation in March of 1979, be Charter's transactions with Libya in the settlement of litigation Energy and the against Carey subsequent. contracting of crude of1 supplies with NOC has been professional, akeve-boar¢’ at all times,. and businesslike, Libya has always honored all business agreements with Charter, verbal or written. At no time haveany political favors been requested or granted. After the initial contact from Billy Carter, Charter went through the | . ” process of determining the viability of this contact, The Company was aware that Billy Carter had hosted the Libyan Trade Delegation to Georgia and appeared to have a line of communications with at least some Libyan officials. Mr. Nasife contacted Ali Houderi, a member of the Libyan Diplomatic Mission, in wed, order to discover if the’ Billy Carter Contact had any potential. Mr. Houdert: ~, indicated that Billy Carter had &@ good rapport with his Libyan friends and that there may be a potential for him obtaining Libyan of1 in order to pursue «this: ‘ proposition. Based on this information, Charter determined that the Billy Carter contact had some merit. At that time, Libya was producing | -aPPr mately 2. 2 million barrels per day and it seened reasonable that there : * mtghe be additional ofl available, 7 7. . The contact betveen Charter and Billy Carter was handled unc 2r the same ; procedures as all other contacts of this type. At no time did Billy Carter